Best Female Athlete ESPY Award

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The Best Female Athlete ESPY Award, known alternatively as the Outstanding Female Athlete ESPY Award, has been presented annually since 1993 to the female, irrespective of nationality or sport contested, adjudged to be the best athlete in a given calendar year.

Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous[1].

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[edit] List of winners

Two athletes, American football (soccer) player Mia Hamm and Swedish golfer Annika Sörenstam, have won the award twice; Hamm was honored in 1998 and 2000 and Sörenstam was honored in 2005 and 2006.

Year Athlete Nation represented Sport
1993 Monica Seles Flag of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Tennis
1994 Julie Krone Flag of the United States United States Thoroughbred horse racing
1995 Bonnie Blair Flag of the United States United States Speedskating
1996 Rebecca Lobo Flag of the United States United States Basketball
1997 Amy Van Dyken Flag of the United States United States Swimming
1998 Mia Hamm Flag of the United States United States Football (soccer)
1999 Chamique Holdsclaw Flag of the United States United States Basketball
2000 Mia Hamm Flag of the United States United States Football (soccer)
2001 Marion Jones Flag of the United States United States Athletics
2002 Venus Williams Flag of the United States United States Tennis
2003 Serena Williams Flag of the United States United States Tennis
2004 Diana Taurasi Flag of the United States United States Basketball
2005 Annika Sörenstam Flag of Sweden Sweden Golf
2006 Annika Sörenstam Flag of Sweden Sweden Golf
2007 Taryne Mowatt Flag of the United States United States Softball

[edit] Winners by sport contested

Sport contested Winners
Basketball 3
Tennis 3
Association football 2
Golf 2
Athletics 1
Softball 1
Speedskating 1
Swimming 1
Thoroughbred horse racing 1

[edit] Winners by nation represented

Nation represented Winners
Flag of the United States United States 12
Flag of Sweden Sweden 2
Flag of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 1

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.

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